On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> question: if you are storing just flags and bytes, why not use a bytea
> and store the flags out of line?
I'm not sure I understand your question. I am writing a custom
datatype with variable size more or less following the guidelines in
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Daniele Varrazzo
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a variable size custom datatype in C. The variable part is
> an array of unsigned long, and it needs to be aligned. I further need
> to store a few flags, for which a single byte would be more than
> enough (I would
Hello,
I'm writing a variable size custom datatype in C. The variable part is
an array of unsigned long, and it needs to be aligned. I further need
to store a few flags, for which a single byte would be more than
enough (I would actually need just a single bit, but I'd probably keep
some bits to s
